Sociability and brain development in BALB/cJ and C57BL/6J mice

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 228, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 299-310

  Fairless, Andrew H ^a   Dow, Holly C ^a   Kreibich, Arati Sadalge ^a   Torre, Matthew ^a   Kuruvilla, Mariyam ^a   Gordon, Elliot ^a   Morton, Elizabeth A ^a   Tan, Junhao ^a   Berrettini, Wade H ^a   Li, Hongzhe ^a   Abel, Ted ^b   Brodkin, Edward S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Behavior; Juvenile; Model; Mouse; Social

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN WEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; LITTER SIZE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; ORGAN SIZE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84862777834     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.12.001     Document Type: Article

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